i have done the similar setup with the coat hangers, works awsome, and the coat hangers are free!!!! go into any dry cleaners places and ask them nicely and they usually give me or tell me to take a hand full. take the coat hanger and i normally straighten the whole thing out with a pair of pliers and cut them into four equal sections. then take each piece and bend them into a V shape. take a thick rubber band and loop it through the V so you have one end of the rubber band to tie onto your line. then about a foot up tie on like a wire worm
or favorite fly. if you get snagged then pull and the rubber band should snap leaving you still with your flies and such.
How long would each arm of the V normally be. It must be similar to a pickerel rig, with the clothes hanger dragging the bottom on the end of the line, and the hooks dropping of the main line on a short tag line.
its all up to you i have seen people cut the coat hangers into two huge ones but for me i experimented with cutting them into 4 and using two at a time for various current conditions. so ya its very similar to a pickeral rig only the weight is just enough to bounce on the bottom and almost snag free.
I just shutter when I hear about using a nail for weight. One time I saw a small nail sitting point up in a shallow section of the Old Man River. I fished for rockies for many years using speedometer cable after using split shot which constantly got caught between rocks. Speedometer cable can be cut down to the lenght/weight you require. Unravel a section of wire then wrap your line around the cable. Simply rewrap the wire. Put this section between the two flies you have on your "setup". Works great. The only problem is where to access the cable as new technology does not require it in vehicles. I went to an auto recycling lot and acquired a 3 foot length. Cheap. Another time I was given access to find one and remove it. Free. BEL
i also run into this too nails in the water and all so i started to experiment with using slip floats with splitshots to get the flies down deep and you can adjust the height to the point where it hovers above the rocks. if you fly fish this is also extremely fun to catch rockies on the fly.
It has been a long time since I fished for Whites. We used latex rubber tubing with lead inserted in to it. Not sure if you can still buy latex tubbing and coil of lead. My dad got it from Ron's Outdoors in Edson back in the day. Tie line to tubing and about 10" up line tie on fly. Bait with maggot.
Get hung up in the rocks and good jerk of the rod will often free up the weight.
Take a coat hanger, cut it up into 8 inch lengths. I started to use the chain link fence wire when coat hangers went away from the heavier materials. Bend whatever metal you use to a V.
Tie your line to it. We then go up about a foot or more and tie on a schnelled fly. The ones with the loop end. Bait if allowed, cast up stream and into to the faster water and wait for the line to tighten. You will now feel that weight bouncing off the rocks. And every bite.
Rocky Mountain whitefish.
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